In the passage “Individuals in Group”, author Carol Tavris demonstrated a psychological theory called “diffusion of responsibility” or “social loafing”. They are the social phenomenon whereby an individual is less likely to take action and responsibility when other peoples are present. In another word, people in a group become lazier and will make less effort compare to the individuals who work alone. Such theory not only appeared in our everyday life, but also can be seen in literature like Orwell’s 1984, specifically, the scene called the Two Minutes Hate. The characters there behave both similar and different to the behaviors as Tavris described. Tavris states in the passage, “Something happens to individuals when they are in a group. They think and act differently than they would on their own”shows the main idea throughout the article. Individuals who are alone will act differently and will take actions sooner than those in a group will. An example Tavris provided in the …show more content…
I remembered a time when my school is having a singing competition. After the participant's performance, all the audiences start to clap. Even though I am clapping too, the sound of my clap was small. I was lazy and tired of making a warm applause, hence, I did not clap hard since other people are clapping already. I felt that since there are a lot of people clapping for the participant, it won't be much difference whether I clap or not. Another example happened to be a dinner event. Me and my friend are having a dinner together at a food court. I was talking to a friend about a drama we just watched, thus did not go order our food. Another friend then just asked us what we would like to eat and ordered the food for us. These two examples proved Tavris' theory of "social loafing" because I did not do the amount of efforts I put in a work when I was in a group were little, and even let other people to do the job for